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Wooster, Ohio was named after the Revolutionary War general David Wooster.
Elias Compton, dean of the College of Wooster, had two sons who also attended Wooster and became eminent physicists and university presidents. Arthur Holly Compton, winner of the Nobel Prize for discovering the Compton Effect, later became president of Washington University in St. Louis. Karl Compton, although lacking a Nobel of his own, became president of MIT. Their brother Wilson, although choosing diplomacy rather than physics for a career, became president of Washington State University. All three brothers earned PhD’s at Princeton.
Woosters don’t lay eggs. Hens do.
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The USS Worcester was a light cruiser built in Camden NJ and commissioned in June 1948. She served until being decommissioned in December 1958 at Mare Island CA. She was mothballed until December 1970 and then sold for scrapping in July 1972.
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The 2007 Ignobel Prize for Aviation was awarded to Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek of Universidad Nacionalde Quilmes, Argentina, for their discovery that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters. Their work was reported in the study “Sildenafil Accelerates Reentrainment of Circadian Rhythms After Advancing Light.”
The great majority of hamsters sold or owned as pets in the United States are descendants of a single pair of Syrian hamsters that were bred in Jerusalem in the 1930s. Prior to that, hamsters almost never mated or gave birth in captivity.
Saladin (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb), already known in his own lifetime as being far more moderate than his predecessors in his personal habits where wine and women and treasure and other luxuries and vices were concerned, gave away the majority of his personal property and belongings as he was dying in Damascus, Syria in 1193, leaving none of his children particularly wealthy.
George Robert Waterhouse “discovered” the Syrian (or Golden) Hamster in Syria in 1836. He was a co-founder of the the Entomological Society of London in 1833 and was invited to go on Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, but declined.
St John Chrysostom, one of the greatest preachers of the early Church, was nicknamed “chrysostomos”, or “golden mouthed.”
One of his prayers was used to close the services for Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
St. Johns, New Foundland is not only the oldest English-founded city in North America, it is also the Easternmost point on the continent.
The St. John’s Redmen, the 7th winningest team in college basketball history, were forced to take the new name Red Storm, due to inaccurate perceptions that “Redmen” was a slur against native Americans (in reality, the team was called the Redmen because they wore red uniforms).
Stanford University changed its name from Indians in 1972. The student body voted for the name Robber Barons to replace it, but the nickname was not accepted and the school evetually adopted the Cardinals (for the color red, not the bird). For no apparent reason, their mascot is a tree.
The official nickname (oxymoronic as that sounds) for Stanford’s teams is the singular Cardinal. I like to think the tree’s adoption was a pun on the fact the school’s basketball teams play home games in Maples Pavilion.
The Royal St. John’s Regatta is scheduled for the first Wednesday of August. If weather isn’t suitable, and wind conditions are very important, the event is postponed until the next suitable day.
Since Regatta Day is a civic holiday in St. John’s, this means that the weather actually determines whether or not workers have the day off – a matter sometimes complicated by late-night partying associated with the end of the George Street Festival the night before.
After Phil Collins became the lead singer of Genesis, rather than merely their drummer, the band hired Chester Thompson, formerly of the Weather Report, to play the drums during their live shows, freeing Collins to move about the stage.
At age 16, Joan Collins was courted by 19-year-old Larry Hagman. He had to be very respectful and report to her father.
Collins Avenue, or “Millionaires Row”, the main street of Miami Beach, was named for real estate developer John S. Collins, who built the first bridge there from the mainland.
Greater Miami is the only metropolitan area in the US whose borders encompass two national parks – Everglades National Park and Biscayne National Park.
Jesus had two apostles named James- typically, the son of Zebedee (and brother of John) is called James the Greater, and the other is called James the Lesser.
The Greater Antilles include Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico; the lesser include Grenada and Barbados.
The Bermuda Triangle’s first written boundaries date from a 1964 issue of pulp magazine Argosy, where the triangle’s three vertices are Miami, Florida peninsula; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda.